I went to SAIC's website to look at their subsidiaries and the page is not available. Interesting. I want to find out if it was true they own Spherion and perhaps even more companies on NYC gov's payroll.
Anyway read Juan Gonzalez'a piece on he exposes that for the FDNY NYPD EMS new system the city used Hewlett Packard and it wasn't working out so gee whiz they had to go hire a company as big and mysterious as SAIC -- very similar powerhouse if you consider military defense -- power house that we need to pay top dollar for when we are in a massive budgetary crisis. p.s. Did it occur to anyone that we, the USA, are in a mega-trillion dollar hole because perhaps we are spending just a little too much with SAIC and Northrop Grumman on a national level? Here in NYC Rudy started it with Maximus and than CityTime bringing in SAIC and why? In my opinion hand washing with one goal = The White House. Mike just took it to an extreme.
"Under Bloomberg's plan, defense giant Northrop Grumman is supposed to take over management of the project, which a previous contractor, Hewlett Packard, botched. Most of the $286 million expenditure is earmarked for consultant salaries.
More than 100 Northrop people would be paid an average of $380,000 annually, a Daily News analysis of contract documents found.
The agreement even provides annual 2.5% wage increases. The highest-paid consultant would begin at $454,000, and would increase steadily to $494,000 by the fifth year of the contract, the documents show.
Bloomberg is determined to pay such outlandish salaries at a time when he is cutting city workers and services."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/07/2011-01-07_268m_snow_job_no_money_for_ambulances_but_a_blizzards_worth_for_consultants.html#ixzz1AN7qljwl